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enPixel Press: The Video Game You Createhttp://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31534/pixel-press-app
<p> <img alt="" height="359" src="../../sites/iphonelife.com/files/u31534/pixel_press_image.jpg" title="" width="620" /></p><p><a href="http://pixelpressgame.com/">Pixel Press</a> isn’t just&nbsp;a gaming app—it represents a new, innovative hybrid of gaming and design.&nbsp;<span>With 12 hours left in its Kickstarter campaign and a bank balance&nbsp;</span><span>well above its</span><span>&nbsp;fundraising goal of $100,000, Pixel Press has quickly gained notoriety for allowing users to create a game without learning to code.</span></p><p><span><a href="http://www.roundthird.com/">Roundthird</a>, the creator Pixel Pressed&nbsp;</span><span>based in St. Louis, Missouri, is no stranger to the world of&nbsp;</span>iOS applications with&nbsp;<span>games such as&nbsp;</span><a href="http://radial50.com/">Radial50</a>, b<span>ut Pixel Press represents a new frontier. &nbsp;</span><span>Pixel&nbsp;Press allows the user to draw, upload ,&nbsp;and play their very own video game. It is a four-step process that&nbsp;</span><span>gives you an in-depth idea of how video games are conceptualized,&nbsp;but doesn’t overwhelm you with heavy technical jargon or code.&nbsp;</span><span>It asks you to create five floors of a video game level similar to those found in the original Super Mario Brothers games.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p><span>Using a free &nbsp;</span><span>designed graph paper, you can create the general layout by drawing&nbsp; in various obstacles like spikes and portals. You draw with&nbsp;</span><span>the help of a guidance outline that also comes in the Sketch Kit with the graph paper. Once complete, use the app to snap a&nbsp;</span><span>picture of your level. It then becomes digitized and playable. You can&nbsp;then move on to testing it out, and when satisfied, you can add colors,&nbsp;textures, music, and more. Then you can share your created game with&nbsp;others as well as play other users' games. With this process, Pixel Press has great&nbsp;appeal for adults as well as kids and has already helped it in gaining notoriety.</span></p><p>Pixel Press employs a great deal of video game nostalgia with the app&nbsp;as well as in its Kickstarter campaign. One example is the "Teacher&nbsp;King Hippo" pledge package, which is a nod to Nintendo’s "Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out"&nbsp;game.</p><p>This nostalgia, combined with the outreach to educators who wish to use&nbsp;the game to teach students about coding, has made the campaign highly&nbsp;visible.&nbsp;<span>It may be a welcome yet productive distraction for the gamers&nbsp;in your family young and old. Find out more at&nbsp;</span><a href="http://pixelpressgame.com/">pixelpressgame.com</a><span>&nbsp;and at its&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robinrath/pixel-press-draw-your-own-video-game">Kickstarter</a><span>&nbsp;page.</span></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robinrath/pixel-press-draw-your-own-video-game/widget/video.html" width="680"></iframe></p>AppsGamesPixel Press595343713Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:34:10 +0000Christopher Smith154151 at http://www.iphonelife.com